Helmut Klassen
The Unforeseen Allusions

The proposed project is a series of images in the form of a book. The theme is a documentation of the processes of our collective imagining of urban space and architecture as a mirroring of the human body. The method of research is one of transformation and metamorphosis that is inherent in the technique of montage.

Consisting of photo-based images, the work will juxtapose found texts and images representing the daily experience of the contemporary built environment (derived mainly, but not exclusively, from print and electronic media) with drawings, photographs, and texts that are both elicited and produced through this process of research. Unforeseen allusions and connections will transcend the discursive format of the book thereby suggesting an alternate theoretical reflection upon urban experience.